Dr Seuss: Truffula Trees

After decades of stuffy silence, the Frost Ampitheatre was back in business, about to host the Frost Revival Festival  in May 2012.  The Stanford Concert Network invited artists from around campus to collaborate and create art installations to welcome the concert goers as they made their way up the hill and down to the stage.

 

 


 

Max Cougar Oswald and I, along with other helpers along the way, ended up spending many good chunks of our afternoons throwing our heads together of how to make life-sized Truffula Trees.

 
But these trees. these trees!
these truffula trees!
all my life I’ve been searching
for trees such as these.
The touch of their tufts
was much softer than silk
And they had the sweet smell
of fresh butterfly milk.
— The Onceler (Dr. Seuss: The Lorax)